Not just a gym procedure

After reading "Do Your Teachers Need a Personal Trainer?" by Aileen M. Owens, it seems that straying away from the train-the-teacher method of training teachers is going to be extinct like the dinosaurs. The new method of training teachers is something that you might see put to practice in a gym or with fitness. The article suggests the "personal trainer" method of bringing teachers up to speed with technology would be far more beneficial than sending a group of teachers to a training.

The article suggests that sending a group of students to a school, and to work as a mentor/tech coach would be more beneficial for everyone. In the article this idea was put to practice in various districts near Duquesne University, where student interns volunteers to personally train teachers and students during class hours. There was a very strong success rate in training these teachers, especially when working with new forms of computer programming, and technology.

The only problem I see posed with this method, lies within the pride of the teachers. A number of teachers might be opposed to this because they wouldn’t want students who aren’t teachers yet to impose on their classrooms. I think the counter argument to that would be that if it is beneficial to ensure that students receive the best education possible, the teachers should put pride aside. I also think that this personal trainer method of bringing teachers up to speed, versus sending teachers to conferences is a good idea. My reasoning behind this is because conferences are often very large groups with a lecturer, where the personal trainer method is one on one and there is the ability to ask questions when problems arise. Overall I think this article was beneficial and I think the Personal trainer should not only be a gym technique, but one that can also be in a classroom.